Abstract

GONCALVES, Ernesto Lima et al. A comprehensive health policy for the State of S. Paulo, Brazil. Rev. Saúde Pública [online]. 1975, vol.9, n.2, pp. 169-179. ISSN 0034-8910.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0034-89101975000200008.

A health policy for providing attention for the population of the Brazilian State of S. Paulo, based on a threefold program of integration of facilities is proposed: the integration of preventive and healing medical activities; the integration of the sanitation authorities, under a central health authority, represented by the State Department of Health; the integration, in a true "health system", of the federal, state and private out-patient and in-patient clinics.

Keywords : Health; Resource integration; S. Paulo, Brazil; Health System.